Domain not seen in DNS Snap in after migrating to AD integrated

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We were previously running mixed mode, after upgrading all
servers to 2000, I switched "pdc" to native mode and the
other 2 DC's showed native mode.

We had DNS running on all 3. I had Standard Primary Zone
for our domain (company.com) on the former "pdc" and
Standard Secondary Zones for the other two DC's.

I changed the zone type from Standard Primary to Active
Directory Integrated on the "pdc" (it is the
infrastructure, pdc, and schema master) for both the
forward and reverse lookup zones. That worked fine.

When I went to the 2nd DNS Server which was running as
Standard Secondary Zone, I was able to swith the forward
lookup zone for our company.com to AD Integrated, but when
I went to switch the REVERSE LOOKUP Zone, it would NOT
allow the zone type to be switched.

ON the 3rd DNS Server, I was not able to swtich either
forward or reverse lookup zone type from the STandard
Secondary.

The RPC Server service would not allow any replication
from the old "pdc", the one I switched to Active Directory
integrated on both forward and reverse lookup zone.

Anyway, after rebooting to hopefully intiate replication
on all servers, I no long have our company.com on ANY DNS
Server and can not recreate it by right clicking. The
only knowledge base I saw re: this was related to SP1 and
SP2, we have SP4 on all machines.

How can I get our company.com to reappear in the DNS Snap-
in? What do I need to check? PLEASE GOD HELP ME!
 
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J said:
We were previously running mixed mode, after upgrading all
servers to 2000, I switched "pdc" to native mode and the
other 2 DC's showed native mode.

We had DNS running on all 3. I had Standard Primary Zone
for our domain (company.com) on the former "pdc" and
Standard Secondary Zones for the other two DC's.

I changed the zone type from Standard Primary to Active
Directory Integrated on the "pdc" (it is the
infrastructure, pdc, and schema master) for both the
forward and reverse lookup zones. That worked fine.

When I went to the 2nd DNS Server which was running as
Standard Secondary Zone, I was able to swith the forward
lookup zone for our company.com to AD Integrated, but when
I went to switch the REVERSE LOOKUP Zone, it would NOT
allow the zone type to be switched.

ON the 3rd DNS Server, I was not able to swtich either
forward or reverse lookup zone type from the STandard
Secondary.

The RPC Server service would not allow any replication
from the old "pdc", the one I switched to Active Directory
integrated on both forward and reverse lookup zone.

Anyway, after rebooting to hopefully intiate replication
on all servers, I no long have our company.com on ANY DNS
Server and can not recreate it by right clicking. The
only knowledge base I saw re: this was related to SP1 and
SP2, we have SP4 on all machines.

How can I get our company.com to reappear in the DNS Snap-
in? What do I need to check? PLEASE GOD HELP ME!
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On the secondary DNS zones ou should have just deleted the secondary zone,
or simply restarted the server. This is known to convert secondary zones to
AD integrated, if there is an AD integrated on another DC in the domain.
268584 - Changing an Active Directory-Integrated Zone to Secondary Reverts
to Active Directory-Integrated:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;268584&Product=win2000
 
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On the secondary DNS zones ou should have just deleted the secondary zone,
or simply restarted the server. This is known to convert secondary zones to
AD integrated, if there is an AD integrated on another DC in the domain.
268584 - Changing an Active Directory-Integrated Zone to Secondary Reverts
to Active Directory-Integrated:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en- us;268584&Product=win2000



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